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- requital
collapse - an act of requiting; returning in kind related words >
- amends,
- atonement,
- blood money,
- comeuppance,
- compensation,
- consideration,
- damages,
- desert,
- deserts,
- guerdon,
- honorarium,
- indemnification,
- indemnity,
- just deserts,
- making good,
- meed,
- paying back,
- payment,
- price,
- punishment,
- quid pro quo,
- quittance,
- recompense,
- redress,
- refund,
- reimbursement,
- remuneration,
- reparation,
- repayment,
- reprisal,
- requitement,
- restitution,
- retaliation,
- retribution,
- return,
- revenge,
- reward,
- salvage,
- satisfaction,
- smart money,
- solatium,
- squaring,
- vengeance,
- wergild,
- what is due,
- what is merited
- liturgical
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- of or relating to or in accord with liturgy related words >
- High-Church,
- alto,
- baptismal,
- baritone,
- bass,
- bravura,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- choral,
- choric,
- coloratura,
- conventional,
- decorous,
- dramatic,
- eucharistic,
- falsetto,
- formal,
- formular,
- formulary,
- heroic,
- hieratic,
- hymnal,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- lyric,
- operatic,
- paschal,
- pompous,
- psalmic,
- psalmodial,
- psalmodic,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- sacred,
- singing,
- solemn,
- soprano,
- stately,
- tenor,
- treble,
- vocal,
- well-mannered
- High-Church,
- alto,
- baptismal,
- baritone,
- bass,
- bravura,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- choral,
- choric,
- coloratura,
- conventional,
- decorous,
- dramatic,
- eucharistic,
- falsetto,
- formal,
- formular,
- formulary,
- heroic,
- hieratic,
- hymnal,
- liturgical,
- liturgistic,
- lyric,
- operatic,
- paschal,
- pompous,
- psalmic,
- psalmodial,
- psalmodic,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- sacred,
- singing,
- solemn,
- soprano,
- stately,
- tenor,
- treble,
- vocal,
- well-mannered
- acting
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- the performance of a part or role in a drama related words >
- act,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- ad interim,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- at work,
- attitudinizing,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- deputative,
- deputy,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- employment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- exercise,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- going,
- going on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incarnation,
- interim,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- movements,
- mummery,
- occupation,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- projection,
- representation,
- representative,
- running,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- serving,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- supply,
- swing,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- statesman
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- a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs related words >
- Admirable Crichton,
- adept,
- artisan,
- artist,
- attache,
- authority,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- consultant,
- cordon bleu,
- crack shot,
- craftsman,
- dead shot,
- diplomat,
- diplomatist,
- elder statesman,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert consultant,
- graduate,
- handy man,
- journeyman,
- marksman,
- national leader,
- no slouch,
- politician,
- pro,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- public man,
- savant,
- shark,
- sharp,
- solon,
- stateswoman,
- technical adviser,
- technician
- ad valorem,
- admired,
- adored,
- appraised,
- appreciated,
- assessed,
- beloved,
- cherished,
- darling,
- dear,
- dearly beloved,
- esteemed,
- evaluated,
- favorite,
- good for,
- held dear,
- held in respect,
- highly considered,
- honored,
- in high esteem,
- loved,
- much-admired,
- pet,
- popular,
- precious,
- prestigious,
- priced,
- pro rata,
- rated,
- respected,
- revered,
- reverenced,
- treasured,
- valued,
- valued at,
- venerated,
- well-beloved,
- well-considered,
- well-liked,
- well-thought-of,
- worshiped,
- worth
- flatulent
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- generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal related words >
- bloated,
- blown up,
- bombastic,
- dilated,
- distended,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- ejaculative,
- ejective,
- empty,
- enchymatous,
- eructative,
- expulsive,
- extrusive,
- fat,
- formal,
- fustian,
- gassy,
- grandiloquent,
- hollow,
- incrassate,
- inflated,
- mouthy,
- overblown,
- plethoric,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- self-important,
- shallow,
- solemn,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- swelled,
- swollen,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- vain,
- ventose,
- vomitive,
- vomitory,
- windy
- acceptably,
- adequately,
- admissibly,
- after a fashion,
- agreeably,
- amply,
- appreciably,
- at any rate,
- at best,
- at least,
- at most,
- at the least,
- at the most,
- at the outside,
- at worst,
- commensurately,
- comparatively,
- decently,
- detectably,
- enough,
- fair to middling,
- fairishly,
- fairly,
- fairly well,
- in a manner,
- in a way,
- in part,
- in some measure,
- incompletely,
- indifferently,
- leastwise,
- mediocrely,
- merely,
- middling well,
- middlingly,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- modestly,
- not comprehensively,
- not exhaustively,
- only,
- part,
- partially,
- partly,
- passably,
- presentably,
- pretty,
- pretty well,
- pro tanto,
- purely,
- rather,
- relatively,
- respectably,
- satisfactorily,
- satisfyingly,
- simply,
- so far,
- so-so,
- somewhat,
- sufficiently,
- thus far,
- to a degree,
- to some degree,
- unexceptionably,
- visibly,
- well enough
- rite of passage
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- a ritual performed in some cultures at times when a individual changes his status (as from adolescence to adulthood) related words >
- baccalaureate service,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- empty formality,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- formal,
- formality,
- function,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- liturgy,
- mummery,
- observance,
- office,
- performance,
- religious ceremony,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- ritual,
- service,
- solemnity,
- solemnization
- modestly
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- in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'" related words >
- abjectly,
- after a fashion,
- appreciably,
- at any rate,
- at best,
- at least,
- at most,
- at the least,
- at the most,
- at the outside,
- at worst,
- comparatively,
- detectably,
- fair to middling,
- fairishly,
- fairly,
- humbly,
- in a manner,
- in a way,
- in part,
- in some measure,
- incompletely,
- indifferently,
- leastwise,
- mediocrely,
- meekly,
- merely,
- middling well,
- middlingly,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- not comprehensively,
- not exhaustively,
- on all fours,
- on bended knee,
- only,
- part,
- partially,
- partly,
- passably,
- pro tanto,
- purely,
- quietly,
- relatively,
- simply,
- so far,
- so-so,
- somewhat,
- submissively,
- thus far,
- to a degree,
- to some degree,
- tolerably,
- unassumingly,
- unobtrusively,
- unostentatiously,
- unpresumptuously,
- unpretendingly,
- unpretentiously,
- visibly,
- with bated breath,
- with due deference,
- without ceremony
- sesquipedalian
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- a very long word (a foot and a half long)
- given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money" related words >
- Latinate,
- a mile long,
- awkward,
- bombastic,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- elephantine,
- extensive,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- forced,
- formal,
- grandiloquence,
- guinde,
- halting,
- hard word,
- heavy,
- inkhorn,
- interminable,
- jawbreaker,
- jawbreaking,
- labored,
- leaden,
- lengthy,
- lexiphanicism,
- long,
- long word,
- longish,
- longsome,
- lumbering,
- no end of,
- polysyllabic,
- polysyllable,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- sesquipedal,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- tall,
- turgid,
- unwieldy,
- without end
- intransitive
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- designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- auxiliary,
- auxiliary verb,
- conjunctive,
- copula,
- copulative,
- correct,
- defective verb,
- deponent verb,
- finite verb,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- impersonal verb,
- infinitive,
- intransitive verb,
- linking,
- linking verb,
- modal auxiliary,
- neuter verb,
- nominal,
- participial,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- transitive,
- verb,
- verb phrase,
- verbal
- parliamentary
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- having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament; "parliamentary government"
- in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly; "parliamentary law"
- relating to or having the nature of a parliament; "parliamentary reform"; "a parliamentary body" related words >
- absolute,
- aristocratic,
- authoritarian,
- autocratic,
- autonomous,
- bicameral,
- bureaucratic,
- civic,
- civil,
- conforming,
- conformist,
- congressional,
- constitutional,
- deliberative,
- democratic,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- fascist,
- federal,
- federalist,
- federalistic,
- formal,
- governmental,
- gubernatorial,
- heteronomous,
- lawmaking,
- legislative,
- legislatorial,
- matriarchal,
- matriarchic,
- monarchal,
- monarchial,
- monarchic,
- monocratic,
- official,
- oligarchal,
- oligarchic,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- parliamentarian,
- patriarchal,
- patriarchic,
- pluralistic,
- political,
- procedural,
- republican,
- self-governing,
- senatorial,
- theocratic,
- totalitarian,
- unicameral
- ballast
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- any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
- an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
- an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
- coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
- make steady with a ballast related words >
- balance,
- break bulk,
- break out ballast,
- clear for action,
- clear the decks,
- consideration,
- counterbalance,
- counterpoise,
- counterweight,
- equipoise,
- equivalent,
- firm,
- firm up,
- freeze,
- give-and-take,
- hold,
- immobilize,
- keep,
- lead,
- makeweight,
- nail down,
- offset,
- pin down,
- poise,
- quid pro quo,
- retain,
- sandbag,
- setoff,
- shift ballast,
- shoot ballast,
- something of value,
- stabilitate,
- stabilize,
- steady,
- stick,
- tit for tat,
- transfix,
- trim,
- trim ship,
- trim up,
- weigh down,
- weight,
- weight down,
- wing out ballast
- absolutely,
- after a fashion,
- after all,
- again,
- albeit,
- all the same,
- although,
- and no mistake,
- anyhow,
- anyway,
- anywise,
- appreciably,
- assuredly,
- at all,
- at all events,
- at best,
- at least,
- at most,
- at the least,
- at the most,
- at the outside,
- at worst,
- but,
- by all means,
- by any means,
- certainly,
- clearly,
- comparatively,
- decidedly,
- decisively,
- definitely,
- detectably,
- distinctly,
- even,
- even so,
- fairly,
- for a certainty,
- for a fact,
- for all that,
- for certain,
- for sure,
- forsooth,
- howbeit,
- however,
- in a manner,
- in a way,
- in any case,
- in any event,
- in any way,
- in part,
- in some measure,
- in truth,
- incompletely,
- indeed,
- indeedy,
- irregardless,
- just the same,
- leastwise,
- merely,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- modestly,
- most assuredly,
- most certainly,
- nevertheless,
- nohow,
- nonetheless,
- not comprehensively,
- not exhaustively,
- nothing else but,
- notwithstanding,
- of course,
- only,
- part,
- partially,
- partly,
- positively,
- pro tanto,
- purely,
- rather,
- regardless,
- relatively,
- simply,
- so far,
- somewhat,
- still,
- surely,
- though,
- thus far,
- to a certainty,
- to a degree,
- to some degree,
- tolerably,
- truly,
- unequivocally,
- unmistakably,
- visibly,
- when,
- yet
- unsmiling
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- not smiling related words >
- cheerless,
- decorous,
- demure,
- discontented,
- earnest,
- formal,
- frowning,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- humorless,
- in bad humor,
- infestive,
- joyless,
- long-faced,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- pleasureless,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- staid,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- thoughtful,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- unhappy,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- weighty,
- wretched
- tumid
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- of sexual organs; stiff and rigid related words >
- aureate,
- bellied,
- bloated,
- blown up,
- bombastic,
- bug-eyed,
- bulged,
- dilated,
- distended,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- enchymatous,
- euphuistic,
- exophthalmic,
- expanded,
- fat,
- flatulent,
- flowery,
- formal,
- fustian,
- gassy,
- goggle,
- goggled,
- grandiloquent,
- incrassate,
- inflated,
- magniloquent,
- mouthy,
- overblown,
- plethoric,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- popeyed,
- pouched,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- self-important,
- solemn,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- swelled,
- swelling,
- swollen,
- tumescent,
- tumorous,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- ventose,
- ventricose,
- windy
- structural
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- concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
- affecting or involved in structure or construction; "the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements"; "structural damage"
- relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"
- relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; "structural unemployment in a technological society" related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- anatomic,
- architectonic,
- architectural,
- attributive,
- building,
- conjunctive,
- constructional,
- copulative,
- correct,
- descriptive,
- edificial,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- housing,
- intransitive,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- nominal,
- organic,
- organismal,
- participial,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- substantive,
- substructural,
- superstructural,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- tectonic,
- textural,
- transitive,
- verbal
- controversial
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- marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action" related words >
- arguable,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- at issue,
- belligerent,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- combative,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- contentious,
- contestable,
- controvertible,
- debatable,
- deniable,
- dialectic,
- disputable,
- disputatious,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- eristic,
- factious,
- iffy,
- ill-humored,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- litigious,
- logomachic,
- mistakable,
- moot,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- pilpulistic,
- polemic,
- polemical,
- pro and con,
- problematic,
- provocative,
- quarrelsome,
- questionable,
- refutable,
- scrappy,
- speculative,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- unsettled
- partially
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- in part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed" related words >
- after a fashion,
- appreciably,
- at any rate,
- at best,
- at least,
- at most,
- at the least,
- at the most,
- at the outside,
- at worst,
- by halves,
- comparatively,
- defectively,
- deficiently,
- detectably,
- fairly,
- faultily,
- imperfectly,
- in a manner,
- in a way,
- in half measures,
- in installments,
- in part,
- in some measure,
- inadequately,
- incompletely,
- indefensibly,
- inexcusably,
- inexpiably,
- iniquitously,
- interestedly,
- irremissibly,
- leastwise,
- merely,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- modestly,
- not comprehensively,
- not exhaustively,
- one-sidedly,
- only,
- part,
- partly,
- pro tanto,
- purely,
- relatively,
- simply,
- so far,
- somewhat,
- thus far,
- to a degree,
- to some degree,
- to some extent,
- tolerably,
- unallowably,
- unconscionably,
- undeservedly,
- undispassionately,
- unequally,
- unevenly,
- unfairly,
- unforgivably,
- unjustifiably,
- unjustly,
- unpardonably,
- unreasonably,
- unwarrantably,
- visibly,
- wrongfully,
- wrongly
- acting,
- ad hoc,
- ad interim,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- blue-collar worker,
- breadwinner,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- changeable,
- common laborer,
- corruptible,
- counterfeit,
- dangerous,
- day laborer,
- deciduous,
- desultory,
- dummy,
- dying,
- employee,
- ephemeral,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- evanescent,
- factory worker,
- fading,
- fake,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- flunky,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- free lance,
- free-lancer,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- full-time worker,
- hand,
- hazardous,
- imitation,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- improvisational,
- improvised,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- industrial worker,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- interim,
- jackleg,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- jury-rigged,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- make-do,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- menial,
- migrant,
- mock,
- moiler,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- navvy,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- office temporary,
- passing,
- perilous,
- perishable,
- phony,
- pinch,
- precarious,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- proletarian,
- provisional,
- provisory,
- proxy,
- reserve,
- risky,
- roustabout,
- salaried worker,
- secondary,
- self-employed person,
- servant,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short-lived,
- slippery,
- spare,
- stiff,
- stopgap,
- substitute,
- supply,
- temporal,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- toiler,
- token,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- treacherous,
- undependable,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unfaithworthy,
- unreliable,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- utility,
- vicarious,
- volatile,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman
- accord,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- arrangement,
- bargain,
- binding agreement,
- bond,
- cartel,
- collective agreement,
- compact,
- concord,
- concordat,
- consortium,
- contract,
- convention,
- covenant,
- covenant of salt,
- deal,
- dicker,
- employment contract,
- entente,
- formal agreement,
- ironclad agreement,
- legal agreement,
- legal contract,
- mutual agreement,
- paction,
- promise,
- protocol,
- settlement,
- stipulation,
- transaction,
- treaty,
- understanding,
- union contract,
- valid contract,
- wage contract
- interaction
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- a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
- (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons related words >
- ESP,
- alternation,
- answer,
- coaction,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- complementary distribution,
- concurrence,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- converse,
- cooperation,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- engagement,
- exchange,
- information,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interlacing,
- intermeshing,
- interplay,
- intertwining,
- interweaving,
- interworking,
- linguistic intercourse,
- mesh,
- meshing,
- message,
- quid pro quo,
- reply,
- response,
- seesaw,
- social intercourse,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- tit for tat,
- touch,
- traffic,
- truck,
- two-way communication
- prim
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- dress primly
- contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
- assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim" related words >
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- bluenosed,
- buckram,
- censorious,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- chipper,
- conventional,
- correct,
- decorous,
- demure,
- formal,
- genteel,
- hidebound,
- in buckram,
- mid-Victorian,
- narrow,
- neat,
- nice,
- old-maidish,
- orderly,
- overmodest,
- precise,
- prig,
- priggish,
- prissy,
- proper,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- rigid,
- sanctimonious,
- shipshape,
- smug,
- snug,
- spick-and-span,
- starch,
- starched,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- stilted,
- straight,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- tidy,
- trim,
- uncluttered,
- well-groomed,
- wooden
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- austere,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- conscientious,
- critical,
- decorous,
- demure,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- formal,
- fussy,
- genteel,
- hidebound,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- narrow,
- old-maidish,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prissy,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- rigid,
- sanctimonious,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- smug,
- squeamish,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stuffy
- aggressive,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- combative,
- complaining,
- contentious,
- controversial,
- dialectic,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- divisive,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- fractious,
- ill-humored,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- litigious,
- logomachic,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- partisan,
- pilpulistic,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- polemical,
- pro and con,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- scrappy,
- shrewish,
- uncooperative,
- unsubmissive,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- withstanding,
- wrangling
- bombastic
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- ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" related words >
- Latinate,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- big,
- bloated,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- declamatory,
- elephantine,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- flatulent,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fustian,
- gassy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- high-flown,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- leaden,
- lumbering,
- magniloquent,
- mouthy,
- overblown,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- self-important,
- sesquipedalian,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- unwieldy,
- windy
- ceremonious
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- rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" related words >
- High-Church,
- attentive,
- baptismal,
- cap in hand,
- careful,
- ceremonial,
- chivalric,
- chivalrous,
- civil,
- conventional,
- correct,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- decorous,
- deferential,
- dignified,
- dutiful,
- eucharistic,
- formal,
- formular,
- formulary,
- gallant,
- grandiose,
- hieratic,
- honorific,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- knightly,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- majestic,
- moving,
- old-fashioned,
- old-world,
- paschal,
- polite,
- pompous,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- seemly,
- solemn,
- starchy,
- stately,
- stiff,
- striking,
- stuffy,
- well-mannered
- nominative
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- the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
- named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock"
- serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; "nominative noun endings"; "predicate nominative" related words >
- abessive,
- ablative,
- accusative,
- adessive,
- allative,
- appellative,
- approximative,
- byname,
- case,
- cognominal,
- common case,
- dative,
- delative,
- denominative,
- diminutive,
- elative,
- epithetic,
- eponymic,
- eponymous,
- essive,
- formal,
- genitive,
- honorific,
- hypocoristic,
- illative,
- in name only,
- inessive,
- instrumental,
- lative,
- local case,
- locative,
- nominal,
- objective case,
- oblique case,
- perlative,
- possessive case,
- prepositional,
- quasi,
- self-called,
- self-christened,
- self-styled,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- subject case,
- sublative,
- superessive,
- terminative,
- titular,
- translative,
- vocative,
- would-be
- technical
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- a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it
- (of production of chemicals) made for commercial purposes especially on a large scale; "technical (or commercial) sulfuric acid"
- resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations; "analysts content that the stock market is due for a technical rally"; "the fall is only a technical correction"
- characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences; "a technical problem"; "highly technical matters hardly suitable for the general public"; "a technical report"; "producing the A-bomb was a challenge to the technical people of this country"; "technical training"; "technical language"
- of or relating to technique; "technical innovation in recent novels"; "technical details"
- of or relating to proficiency in a practical skill; "no amount of technical skill and craftsmanship can take the place of vital interest"- John Dewey
- of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles; "technical college"; "technological development" related words >
- accomplished,
- applied,
- at concert pitch,
- authoritative,
- back-burner,
- career,
- coached,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confined,
- conversant,
- detailed,
- dinky,
- disciplinary,
- dispensable,
- expert,
- feature,
- featured,
- finished,
- functional,
- immaterial,
- inappreciable,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- industrial,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- initiate,
- initiated,
- insignificant,
- intricate,
- irrelevant,
- knowledgeable,
- limited,
- little,
- mechanical,
- minor,
- minute,
- negligible,
- nonessential,
- not vital,
- official,
- petit,
- polytechnic,
- practiced,
- prepared,
- primed,
- pro,
- professional,
- restricted,
- scholarly,
- scientific,
- skilled,
- small,
- specialist,
- specialistic,
- specialized,
- technicological,
- technological,
- trained,
- unessential,
- unimpressive,
- unnoteworthy,
- vocational
- able to pay,
- ad valorem,
- advantageous,
- aidful,
- appraised,
- appropriate,
- assessed,
- banausic,
- beneficial,
- benign,
- bracing,
- commodious,
- conducive,
- constitutional,
- constructive,
- contributory,
- employable,
- evaluated,
- expedient,
- fitting,
- functional,
- furthersome,
- good,
- health-enhancing,
- health-preserving,
- healthful,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- hygeian,
- hygienic,
- invigorating,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- positive,
- practical,
- pragmatical,
- priced,
- prized,
- pro rata,
- profitable,
- proper,
- rated,
- refreshing,
- remedial,
- salubrious,
- salutary,
- sanitary,
- serviceable,
- solid,
- solvent,
- sound,
- substantial,
- therapeutic,
- tonic,
- unindebted,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valued,
- valued at,
- wholesome,
- worth
- formalistic
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- concerned with or characterized by rigorous or adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art); "highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'" related words >
- accordant,
- anal,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- corresponding,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formulary,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- harmonious,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- kosher,
- legalistic,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nominal,
- orthodox,
- outward,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puristic,
- simpering,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- traditionalist,
- uptight
- prepositional
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- of or relating to or formed with a preposition; "prepositional phrase" related words >
- abessive,
- ablative,
- accusative,
- adessive,
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- allative,
- approximative,
- attributive,
- case,
- common case,
- conjunctive,
- copulative,
- correct,
- dative,
- delative,
- elative,
- essive,
- formal,
- functional,
- genitive,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- illative,
- inessive,
- instrumental,
- intransitive,
- lative,
- linking,
- local case,
- locative,
- nominal,
- nominative,
- objective case,
- oblique case,
- participial,
- perlative,
- possessive case,
- postpositional,
- pronominal,
- structural,
- subject case,
- sublative,
- substantive,
- superessive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- terminative,
- transitive,
- translative,
- verbal,
- vocative
- frowning
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- showing displeasure or anger related words >
- beetle-browed,
- black,
- black-browed,
- dark,
- decorous,
- dejected,
- demure,
- dour,
- dumpish,
- earnest,
- formal,
- glowering,
- glum,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- grum,
- long-faced,
- lowering,
- melancholy,
- moodish,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mumpish,
- scowling,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- somber,
- staid,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- thoughtful,
- unsmiling,
- weighty
- cordon bleu
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- a chef famous for his great skill related words >
- Admirable Crichton,
- adept,
- artisan,
- artist,
- attache,
- authority,
- blue ribbon,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- consultant,
- cordon,
- crack shot,
- craftsman,
- dead shot,
- decoration,
- decoration of honor,
- diplomat,
- diplomatist,
- elder statesman,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert consultant,
- garter,
- gold star,
- graduate,
- grand cordon,
- handy man,
- journeyman,
- marksman,
- no slouch,
- order,
- ornament,
- politician,
- pro,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- red ribbon,
- riband,
- ribbon,
- savant,
- shark,
- sharp,
- star,
- statesman,
- technical adviser,
- technician
- Admirable Crichton,
- Nimrod,
- adept,
- archer,
- artilleryman,
- artisan,
- artist,
- attache,
- authority,
- bowman,
- cannoneer,
- carabineer,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- consultant,
- cordon bleu,
- craftsman,
- dead shot,
- deadeye,
- diplomat,
- diplomatist,
- elder statesman,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert consultant,
- good shot,
- graduate,
- gun,
- gunman,
- gunner,
- handy man,
- hunter,
- journeyman,
- marksman,
- markswoman,
- musketeer,
- no slouch,
- politician,
- pro,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- rifleman,
- savant,
- shark,
- sharp,
- sharpshooter,
- shooter,
- shot,
- sniper,
- statesman,
- targetshooter,
- technical adviser,
- technician,
- toxophilite,
- trapshooter
- Admirable Crichton,
- Nimrod,
- adept,
- archer,
- artilleryman,
- artisan,
- artist,
- attache,
- authority,
- bowman,
- cannoneer,
- carabineer,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- consultant,
- cordon bleu,
- crack shot,
- craftsman,
- deadeye,
- diplomat,
- diplomatist,
- elder statesman,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert consultant,
- good shot,
- graduate,
- gun,
- gunman,
- gunner,
- handy man,
- hunter,
- journeyman,
- marksman,
- markswoman,
- musketeer,
- no slouch,
- politician,
- pro,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- rifleman,
- savant,
- shark,
- sharp,
- sharpshooter,
- shooter,
- shot,
- sniper,
- statesman,
- targetshooter,
- technical adviser,
- technician,
- toxophilite,
- trapshooter
- symmetrical
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- having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts related words >
- apoise,
- arranged,
- balanced,
- businesslike,
- coequal,
- commensurable,
- commensurate,
- concinnate,
- concinnous,
- congruent,
- congruous,
- coordinate,
- equal,
- equibalanced,
- equilateral,
- equiponderant,
- equiponderous,
- euphonic,
- euphonical,
- euphonious,
- eurythmic,
- even,
- finished,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- formal,
- habitual,
- harmonious,
- in hand,
- in proportion,
- measured,
- methodical,
- normal,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- poised,
- proportional,
- proportionate,
- proportioned,
- regular,
- routine,
- smooth,
- smooth-sounding,
- steady,
- sweet,
- symmetric,
- systematic,
- tripping,
- uniform,
- usual,
- well-balanced,
- well-ordered,
- well-proportioned,
- well-regulated,
- well-set,
- well-set-up
- Admirable Crichton,
- adept,
- aeromechanic,
- apprentice,
- artificer,
- artist,
- artiste,
- attache,
- authority,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- consultant,
- copyist,
- cordon bleu,
- crack shot,
- craftsman,
- craftswoman,
- creator,
- dauber,
- daubster,
- dead shot,
- diplomat,
- diplomatist,
- elder statesman,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert consultant,
- graduate,
- handicraftsman,
- handy man,
- journeyman,
- machinist,
- maker,
- marksman,
- master,
- master carpenter,
- master craftsman,
- mechanic,
- mechanician,
- no slouch,
- old master,
- politician,
- prentice,
- pro,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- savant,
- shark,
- sharp,
- statesman,
- technical adviser,
- technician,
- wright
- inaugural
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- serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"
- occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" related words >
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- address,
- advanced,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- antecedent,
- antenatal,
- anterior,
- autochthonous,
- avant-garde,
- baccalaureate service,
- beginning,
- budding,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- chalk talk,
- chief,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- creative,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- empty formality,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exhortation,
- exordial,
- exploratory,
- fetal,
- filibuster,
- first,
- foremost,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal,
- formal speech,
- formality,
- formative,
- foundational,
- function,
- fundamental,
- funeral oration,
- gestatory,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- harangue,
- headmost,
- hortatory address,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural address,
- inauguration,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- induction,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiation,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- installation,
- introductory,
- invective,
- inventive,
- investiture,
- jeremiad,
- leading,
- liturgy,
- mummery,
- nascent,
- natal,
- observance,
- office,
- oration,
- original,
- parturient,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- postnatal,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- prefatory,
- pregnant,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- prenatal,
- preparatory,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- prevenient,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- prior,
- procreative,
- proemial,
- propaedeutic,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious ceremony,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- service,
- set speech,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- ur,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
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